Remember The Bob Dylan Rule: It's Not

The Public Square Is More Public Than Ever, But Minds Are Rarely Changed In 140 Character Bursts And By Selfies.

The Time To Look For A New Job Is When You Don't Need One. The Time To Switch Jobs Is Before It Feels Comfortable.

The Goal In Blogging/ Business/ Inspiring Non-fiction Is To Share A Truth, Or At Least A Truth As The Writer Sees It. To Not Just Share It, But To Spread It And To Cause Change To Happen. You Can Do That In At Least Three Ways: With Research (your Own Or Reporting On Others), By Building And Describing Conceptual Structures, Or With Stories That Resonate.

As The Amount Of Inputs Go Up, As The Number Of People And Ideas That Clamor For Attention Continue To Increase, We Do What People Always Do: We Rely On The Familiar, The Trusted And The Personal. The Incredible Surplus Of Digital Data Means That Human Actions, Generosity And Sacrifice Are More Important Than They Ever Were Before.

We Do Not Need To Teach Students To Embrace The Status Quo.